The Diary of an Italian Slave Trader | Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery in the Americas

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[@JabzyJoe]

Should I continue with these 1st Hand Sources Vids? They don't seem to be so popular.

[@ToastieBRRRN]

Yes please.

[@spartanumismatics8165]

Please

[@krel4]

They are unique on all history youtubers I follow. Other videos might be more popular compared to this one, but they are more similar to a lot of other videos of KZbin. I originally subscribed to your channel because of how great these videos are.

[@SamTornado1701]

I like them!

[@thecia4202]

The best things often aren't the most popular, because only precious few can appreciate them for the value they truly are :) please do continue, these are things that would otherwise go uncovered as most rarely ever go into such detail for first hand sources

[@davidperrier6149]

The plan was to buy 75 at 50 each and sell then at an average of 250 each. Instead, they paid 150 each and sold them at 180 each, substracting the ones that died. That's a lot of hassle for bad returns.

[@NoNo-oi7zj]

Man that’s nothing compared to the selling/buying quantities of today!

[@josephang9927]

Slavery was only profitable for a very few businesses. Today it is almiat only profitable for sex market.

[@adefay2811]

If it was only profitable for a few businesses then it wouldn't be seen through out human history and still heavily present in the world today that you can find stats figuring that more slaves exist in today's time then ever before world wide..

[@CoolMan-ig1ol]

Economies of scale, with larger ships would have been better, and made the largest of profits. Private ventures were simply unprofitable.

[@us7wqtrnek7uu]

@@josephang9927 Monsanto the gmo kings were part of it in Louisiana,Lehman brothers,rothschid etc were part of it they business been there 100yrs plus.i guess slavery was not lucrative.it was When the dutch jewish got kicked out of brazil move to New Amsterdam & bring their bad habits with them, aka slavery. But is interesting when they mention institutions who did slavery on TV is only white not jewish

[@SamTornado1701]

Thanks for including the captions, it was a little hard understanding the heavy accent. But in my layman's, opinion it added a lot.

[@monkeyman321]

Interesting. As a native Spanish speaker, I found the accent easier to understand than some native accents like American Appalachian, Scottish or Kiwi for example.

[@nathanwood4614]

These sort of things show me how weird, confusing and complex racism, colonialism and slavery are.

[@GermanConquistador08]

Too complex to be monopolized by political factions for present gain.

[@nowthenzen]

Slavery has always been with us Murder has also always been with us Neither are good

[@JayzsMr]

Slavery has nothing to do with racism as it always existed since the dawn of agriculture

[@d.esanchez3351]

@@JayzsMr I thing it has to do, at least in the "colonial" era, tho, it has been very oversimplified. And even if it was horrible, we need to remember that the world was very hard back then, and people always have been people. Things seems to be more complicated than it's usually thought

[@JayzsMr]

@@d.esanchez3351 not really, racism as concept like people understand it today evolved in the anglo Saxon culture, namely the USA . It did not exits in the same way before .

[@Witnessmoo]

A prime example of how people outsource their morals to the law. ‘It was legal so I did it’

[@memezoffuckery3207]

Lol, they were also okay with it on a personal level: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJqkgmmadpqagKs

[@blugaledoh2669]

@@memezoffuckery3207 Many people would disagree with the practice despite scriptural justification. Also biblical slavery was very different from the later transatlantic slavery in the way they were treated. And it must be pointed out what is allowed and permitted may not always be good.

[@josephang9927]

In many senses slavery was considered as a favor for "uncivilized" people.

[@JRobbySh]

Which is why one in five pregnancies in the USA is ended in an abortion clinic. Half the population finds it distasteful, but Planned Parenthood remains one of the most powerful lobbies in the USA.

[@otakunthevegan4206]

@@JRobbySh What about guns and private health insurance companies?

[@Ifab2001]

As a Malaysian, it would be really cool if you made a video about the Brookes family of English explorers that became crowned sultans of Sarawak

[@nowthenzen]

How does that work? Oh, Hello there! I think Now I am Your King!

[@leponpon6935]

Back in the day when we studied sejarah, Brooke = Buruk XD

[@leponpon6935]

😂

[@johndorilag4129]

misery and slavery

[@JRobbySh]

Are you aware that Muslim nations curbed their slave trade only because of pressure from the Royal Navy. That was because the Ottoman Sultan;s empire was in decline?

[@OrbitalAstronaut]

Fascinating video. The accent makes the whole thing better.

[@JabzyJoe]

Normally people criticise the use of a foreign accent.... or maybe it was just the French one on the Crusades video.

[@kindofunkind4826]

@@JabzyJoe The heavy accent makes it much harder to understand, perhaps more so for me as a non-native speaker. So, 10/10 for the content, 5/10 at most for the delivery.

[@scepticmuslim]

@@JabzyJoe Hello bro...great content👍🏽 I think you are a russian or something similar to east europe...i grew up with many russians here in germany...polish people also have harder accent but your s Sounds more like a russia man

[@JabzyJoe]

@@scepticmuslim The guy recording this is Italian

[@scepticmuslim]

@@JabzyJoe ah wow....i was 90% sure a russian...it seems Italians speak only melody like in their own language....thanks for responding

[@rennite9266]

It's crazy to be exposed to a slave traders diary and how he consciously struggled with what his profession was. Often times we think of them as heartless and evil not putting in the context of how they felt about it. To feel thier own conflicting emotions of thier actions is so much more impactful and allows one to see the human in them.

[@ibnhe9024]

Maybe don't try to humanize people who's entire career was based on the dehumization of others. It doesn't matter wether they liked what they were doing, they still did it. Why don't people ever think of the slaves as people as well, I don't think the slaves cared about the feelings of their enslavers when it came to their freedom.

[@IgnasV]

@@ibnhe9024 it's not like they went to hunt them down, they were already being sold so it's either they take them or they get sold to Arabs.

[@rennite9266]

@@ibnhe9024 by no means I'm I excusing the extreme brutality and atrocities they've committed. I'm just just seeing the emotions the conflicted they're hearts cause often time I always assumed one would have to be heartless and emotionless to commit such acts. I'm acknowledging the emotions I overlooked when learning about slavery.

[@ibnhe9024]

@@rennite9266 I understand on that point. I also feel like the image provided of a slave trader is intentionally misleading. The blame is pushed away onto a few heartless individuals rather than the actual problem.

[@blugaledoh2669]

@@ibnhe9024 Everything you said is irrelevant because it miss the point.

[@ccityplanner1217]

Consider that he's doing this under orders from his father rather than by his own initiative. It's one of the few cases in which people will do things they believe to be immoral.

[@teshamiller6001]

It doesn’t erase any of his accountability. It was still a horrible thing to do

[@drakejoy2902]

"Humans are created equal to the point that we have to find a difference to oppress one another." - person living in earth

[@someguysomeone3543]

Lmao at the "Portuguese men love moorish women more than Portuguese women". The same thing went for the Turks in anatolia and Balkans.

[@wholewheatcracker3561]

I’ve heard jokes about Turkish women only having sex with European men so it evens out lol

[@athomicritics]

to show that some thing never changes , today some will say that white mens prefer asian womens and things like that , these expression always existed in some way

[@corneliuscapitalinus845]

The Portuguese were looked down on for this by other Europeans, and even at that I am fairly certain that the highest rate of miscegenation was up to 15%, and only in some areas. Also, the Portuguese showed in their reprisals for Carmona (and the many other horrendous assaults as part of the same operation), in Angola, that when threatened they were/are capable of snapping right back to a tribal sensibility.

[@vulpes7079]

Real Lusotropicalism hours

[@ingold1470]

@@corneliuscapitalinus845 It sounds like the rate was increased in this colony because the "moorish" women had immunity to tropical diseases, and so could take better care of their men than the Portuguese transplants.

[@fisklars3579]

Nothing personal kiddo, just business. And business is personal.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

Nothing personal

[@anasevi9456]

just a new link in an ancient chain. And i might add, in this business it's personnel; you don't have to pay.

[@jasonmarshal5694]

Its strange how he knew it was wrong yet did since money atleast he saw them as humans

[@NathanDudani]

Why would he not see them as humans?

[@joujou264]

@@NathanDudani Because a lot of slave merchants saw slaves, at best, as subhuman, but generally as little more than human shaped cattle.

[@kahlilg9824]

@@joujou264 even then I think it’s a justification. I don’t think they actually believe that. They just did that to protect their own morals and ego.

[@pixelsabre]

@@joujou264 That kind of dehumanizing attitude is something you'd expect from a colonies of pirates and raiders who made slaving their biggest source of wealth and activity. You can see hints of it in the narrator's description of the other Portuguese and Spanish merchants, sailors, and administrators who helped guide him on his journey on how to transport slaves. But this guy wasn't like them. This was his first big outing, and he had to become an agent for someone else in order to be given entry into the business. It'd be like your average high schooler suddenly getting a job at a slaughterhouse for a summer internship, and feeling terrible for the way the animals are treated.

[@anonymousbloke1]

@@pixelsabre pirates didn't really sell slaves though. They were usually let go or joined pirate crews themselves, willingly or.. "not-so-willingly"

[@ElBandito]

So nice to see your vids again.

[@spartanumismatics8165]

I love the accent. It adds to it.

[@RenegadeShepard69]

It's horrible. Completely took me out of it.

[@RenegadeShepard69]

@Jermy Wermy I live in a larger city than London.

[@RenegadeShepard69]

@Jermy Wermy ...I really do. One of the biggest cities in the world, the biggest in the southern hemisphere, etc. But So What, you're gonna ask for proof of that? Some people online man I swear lol, man's mad at me for living in a big city. But this doesn't have anything to do with my comment that's the most bizarre part of this exchange here.

[@syiacoup]

These are excellent sources and excellent for teachers. I'll use this one in my classes and will put the link on our online system. Thank you!

[@niriop]

Interesting how any “racial” construction isn’t the norm here-Portuguese men marrying black women of “Guinea” is unusual only because of nationality, not “race”.

[@arawn1061]

Well the racism comes later

[@ikengaspirit3063]

Yeah, this is still early in the slave trade. Racism developed because of the trade not the other way around and was still developing in this time period.

[@arawn1061]

@@ikengaspirit3063 wohoo?

[@josephang9927]

Slavery was not such a racial issue until later, when it became socially unacceptable again (it was during middle ages, but selfdom was like slavery anyway).

[@indiekiddrugpatrol3117]

Racism developed as a justification for the slave trade. These so called “moral” Christians developed a theory of superiority to justify the enslavement of Africans

[@empiricalpower7125]

Thank you so much you rarely see first hand accounts from history

[@ryanharris1052]

Great video. We often view history as a spectator but hearing people, especially every day people is very informative.

[@abramjones9091]

We need more videos like this, economic history rather than generalized political and war history. The root of history is economics, politics and war are secondary and tertiary. War, for example, is completely dependent on economic factors.

[@limonesycafe8898]

"God saved us in his mercy..." The contradiction in this statement. Great work.

[@antebellumstage]

Great video, really puts you in the mind of a slave trader

[@SanTM]

Very informative as ever

[@helpconflict9851]

Thanks for posting! what source is this from? can you list the source in the description?

[@JabzyJoe]

Can read it all online here - warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/event/myvoyagearoundtheworld/my_voyage_around_the_world_f_carletti_english.pdf

[@helpconflict9851]

@@JabzyJoe Thank You so much

[@pinkomoore]

Fascinating

[@noobsaibot7006]

This business never pleased him lol but at the same time he did not mind making the money. Duality of Man

[@owenprosser]

I like how you’ve added captions for Americans/Non-Native English speakers but it would be nice to be able to toggle them off

[@vanivanov9571]

1:04 What's the difference between the two kinds of licenses? No one seems to even mention it in the comments. It seems the first is buying the liberty of the slave, but I have no idea what "the fourth" could mean. A quarter of their life?

[@GermanConquistador08]

The royal fourth is a quarter of taxes due to the Crown if I'm not mistaken.

[@vanivanov9571]

Thanks for the good answers.

[@athomicritics]

@@GermanConquistador08 so bassicaly you pay your taxes equivalent in slave ?

[@thechosenone1533]

@@athomicritics No pay a fourth of the price(purchase or sale I am not sure which) to the crown.

[@wy1145]

love the art

[@dayros2023]

Very interesting.

[@ChrisPeck-niganma]

I was recently in Italy and a street nearby was called Via Carletti. Curious, I googled him. Quite interesting.

[@BrightLit712]

I am loving the accents of these diary writers

[@sa5m225]

I'm from the Caribbean, My mom told me this and I wasn't sure if it was true, because they never told us in school.

[@us7wqtrnek7uu]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5Wzd2WImLire5o

[@LiterallyGod]

He mentioned Cartagena and TerraFirma in the West Indies. Does anyone know what those cities are called now?

[@WizzardJC]

@Matteo Tironi yes I was just about to say this, you are right though i think Cartagena means something to do with a large bit of paper or treaty?

[@ikengaspirit3063]

But ur God, how couldn't you have know that?

[@LiterallyGod]

@@ikengaspirit3063 wanna know a secret? *whispers* im not really god

[@ikengaspirit3063]

@@LiterallyGod 😲

[@joedelorbe5410]

Cartagena, Columbia. Still a major city with a mixed population to this day. Also the site of a major slave revolt immortalized in a fantastic salsa called "No Le Pegue a La Negra".

[@deklanmadhen3091]

very interesting

[@Argos-xb8ek]

I couldn't imagine branding another human being

[@jessicacunningham433]

and children as well. he said they bought them young and old.

[@schneejacques3502]

I mean it wass happening in Africa even after 2000s

[@88Somi]

Just go to Tunisia where slavery is still a thing

[@Skadi609]

@@88Somi Slavery was abolished in Tunisia in 1846.

[@thesouthernhistorian4153]

Could you do a video on some Memoirs of Sam Watkins I think it would be really good. If you don't know Watkins is he was a 18 year old Private who served in the 1st Tennessee Infantry he fought in southern armed forces during the civil war and after the conflict made a book name's "Company Aytch, the side show of the Big show" which is his Experiences of his war time service and it's absolutely Breath Taking some of his Best Descriptions of how horrible war is.

[@LucasDimoveo]

The fact that the Europeans knew this was wrong is what makes this entire ordeal baffling.

[@aztaline5593]

The focus is always on the Europeans, but what about African tirbal groups who captured other tribes for European gold?

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

@@aztaline5593 Contemporary European views on the trade are what are being discussed here, so that’s a non-sequitur. Really, everyone practiced slavery at some point. That goes without saying. As for why it gets specific focus: trans-Atlantic slave trade was uniquely cruel, especially in Brazil and the Caribbean, and many people in the western hemisphere are experiencing the after-effects or are the recent descendants of people who experienced it which encourages interest.

[@aztaline5593]

@@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes No I'm saying white people are always demonized for the slave trade, so what about other groups who partook in the trade, or fellow Africans themselves?

[@PackHunter117]

The Muslims probably knew it was wrong too. That didn’t stop them for continuing the slave trade right up til the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Which happened after the European slave trade. Even now some places still continue it

[@aztaline5593]

@@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes I would disagree, the Muslim slave trade was wider in scale, and much crueler, including fully castrating males by the hundreds of thousands.

[@StateoftheWorld]

This is a certified hood classic

[@Jesse_Dawg]

I feel like the video kinda ended aprutely. It was very good tho

[@jeezymclovin2215]

Damn francesco had that cape verde fever 🤒

[@fabbeyonddadancer]

Why don’t you leave your reference source links available for others

[@symmetrymilton4542]

The banality of evil.

[@Abraxium]

11:47 The description sounds more like taro than cassava/yuca

[@KheKheGanja]

Nope it's definitely cassava 💙-island girl

[@juoiyomitagkagkashi5944]

Source?

[@syppy7416]

this kind of thing is always important, as yes these men were horrible, but it's important to gain their perspectives in how they could do such terrible things so that we don't do the same

[@scottconcertman3423]

How embarrassing. First Columbus, now a Florentine from my family's region of Italy. Masima culpa.

[@user-ik2yi4fm1u]

You realize every european slave-traded, not only italians?

[@kanyekubrick5391]

Oh fuck I’m from Cabo Verde (Cape Verde). Didn’t expect that lmao

[@umbrellacorporationwuhanfa3731]

Yeah neither did i...

[@eshadiva6600]

The way they speak about the women lol not shocked as all men love all types of women 🤷🏿‍♀️😏

[@TheIgdrasil1]

That fever was it malaria?

[@stormy3898]

That black covering did not annoy me at all. That is the kindest thing I've heard all year, sheesh.

[@comradecat3678]

Ah the age old lesson of “those white girls are trouble”!!!

[@sneedmando186]

Wow, didn’t know Italy was involved in the transatlantic but honestly not surprised, especially given the church’s approval

[@Languslangus]

⛵

[@brianedwards7142]

It's amazing the mental gymnastics people get up to to justify the sh*t they do.

[@Gacha-Man]

It's also amazing how certain people never look into the horror's of their own people's history and make themselves out to be perpetual victims and pretending to be real life Supermen.

[@PragmaticAntithesis]

I wonder what things we're doing today that our descendants will look at with similar scorn

[@brianedwards7142]

@@PragmaticAntithesis Cars (and the roads they need). After war, the single biggest destructive force on the planet IMO.

[@PragmaticAntithesis]

@@brianedwards7142 Agreed!

[@beninwarrior4579]

@@Gacha-Man Your extra chromosome is showing.

[@GermanConquistador08]

It really shows that the Slave Trade was not at all like they portray in school or in ideological presentations. The Human element, ironically, is extracted completely in almost all standardized historical retellings of this Institution. And it's the human element that should allow us to understand and overcome our history.

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

How is it different?

[@GermanConquistador08]

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 - First is that the Slave trade is portrayed as something normalized in the past, when in reality - Christian Europeans had aversions to Slavery throughout it's existence. It was a system which predated Christianity and existed regardless of the Doctrines of the Church - Especially in places where it did not exist, such as in Africa, which would not be heavily Christianized in West Africa until the 19th century by the French.

[@GermanConquistador08]

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 Second, is that it portrays the horrors of slavery properly - As shared between the Trader and his Slave cargo. Whether enslaved or fully Free, a man had the same chances to die in the environments the Atlantic Slave trade existed in. And weather and disease kill people in these areas of the world today, Slavery or not. These are just a few of the differences.

[@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621]

Venetians also traded Slavs from Dalmatia to Muslims.

[@serenissimarespublicavenet3945]

Yes, but they stopped doing that about five centuries before the events told in this video. Comparing the two slave trades would be like comparing this video's events to the modern day, utterly stupid.

[@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621]

@@serenissimarespublicavenet3945 i only mentioned it. You got triggered by the truth.

[@Imperator04]

@@serenissimarespublicavenet3945 ur salty because Europeans were sold to arabs

[@CovfefeDotard]

😢😢😢😢😢

[@thatsnodildo1974]

Weird how he finds the very people he is selling attractive. In history classes we only are told how cruel Slave traders are and disregard their feelings. They are humans with complexities to them as much as us. It was truly a evil practice but to paint these people in Grey is wrong no matter how weird it feels to not use broad strokes on them.

[@Boomboomroomish]

There is no "grey" about it. Those were horrible people who did horrible things. There were people who knew this was wrong and refused to partake in it. Tjats like saying there was a "grey" area in murder or rape. People who commit murder or rape are horrible people. And at no time were those things ever acceptable just like this isn't. And as far as finding it "weird" that they were sexually attracted to these people is not "weird" at all. They were all human beings and it is normal for humans to be attracted to one another.

[@GermanConquistador08]

The people he's selling are not the Free people of Color.

[@GermanConquistador08]

@@Boomboomroomish - Your ideological reaction to history is unnecessary and unhelpful. Your moral and ideological beliefs are not gospel, especially not in the past - Your "ever acceptable" and totally intolerant beliefs have only been around for mere centuries at most. Theirs were thousands of years. And yet they still ended slavery, despite being major practitioners of it. Without that experience, no European would have ever cared to free a single slave.

[@noahkidd3359]

@@GermanConquistador08 Does the 08 in your username describe the year you were born in? I would not be surprised. Excuse me if I don't trust someone named "German Conquistador" with Prussian iconography (a prominent symbol of the far-right) in their profile to give a fair and reasonable account of colonialism. You sound like one of those white supremacist twits on 4chan who sealion on KZbin to fill the void in their souls.

[@GermanConquistador08]

@@noahkidd3359 - Start off with a passive-aggressive insult to prove you have no argument - Great job. Your ideologically-driven cope masquerading as a quest for Historical Accuracy is also dead on arrival - It's a German Imperial coat of arms. Most Americans, Hispanic or Anglo, have German ancestry and I absolutely would trust a Mestizo Hispanic American (Conquistador = been in America for 500+ years lol) to talk about the story of OUR Colonization, and the story of our black ancestors. You're not the first Vaush-lite, Antifa-flashing Corporate Fake Leftist type to call a Mestizo Hispanic a White Supremacist over something political and you won't be the last. LMAO!

[@leponpon6935]

O mamma mia! Ita even hasa subatitles! I can'ta even forget about it! It is like two piece of toast!

[@tolue]

The accent should add ambience but it sounds off...and some words are not pronounced close enough to their true form to be intelligible. A slight blight in an otherwise interesting video

[@mardasman428]

The accent is a real Italian accent, likely read by a real Italian. If you think the accent sounds off, that is not due to whether it's authentically Italian or not.

[@tolue]

@@mardasman428 I didn't say it's inauthentic, just off. I know it's an Italian accent. My point was more so that it's not likely the Italian accent of the 16th century is the same as a modern one. Perhaps that's nit-picking but that's why I said it's only a slight blight

[@KCCOmug]

I remember once upon a time my mum was saying of course slavery was terrible, but better to be descended from a slave and living in the US today than descended from a free man and living in Africa today. To which I pointed out only 5% of slaves went to the 13 colonies as most went to the Caribbean or South America since more slaves died there than were being born. There is no silver lining about the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, let alone one that excuses it.

[@GermanConquistador08]

African-Americans are today, the richest, best educated, wealthiest Black population on the planet. Given the Exodus focused Theology of Black Protestantism in America, it's not shocking to see their purchase from Africa as not only a silver lining, but deliverance to a Promised Land by God Himself.

[@revolutionaryrabbit7715]

@@GermanConquistador08 What the fuck?!

[@sleven1160]

@@GermanConquistador08 are you including the hundreds of years African Americans were slaves and the decades of Jim crow, or just the relative short time that they've been treated as Americans?

[@PumpkinHoard]

@@sleven1160 I recall Muhammed Ali, after his "Rumble In The Jungle" fight in Africa, responded to a reportes question of; "Champ, what did you think of Africa?" Ali replied "Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat!" Black people in the US have been A LOT better off than those in Africa for a long damn time. You think they don't deal with racism out there? Think again. Inter tribal conflicts have been going on for centuries. People absolutely treated better or worse to this day, within much of Africa, based on which African country or tribal group they come from. And don't even get me started on what their own Governments have done to them. The law means something very different in much of Africa. The idea of people other than the wealthy having any kind of rights at all is still an alien concept in significant hunks of modern Africa. Plenty of slave owners in Africa today. However, they're all black. Well, other than what's been going on in Libya....

[@lif3andthings763]

@@PumpkinHoard ok?

[@tyronedoutherd6444]

I'm sorry, black woman, for looking at other woman outside of my race. Please forgive me. The devil 😈 had my mind. TMH has shown me the beautiful you. Please forgive me. I will never sin in that way again. 💯

[@kenfox22]

Horrible how people can just buy slaves.

[@aboriginalalex]

Horrible how tribal leader's would sell their own people as slaves

[@beninwarrior4579]

@@aboriginalalex First of all Africa wasn't just tribes. There were kingdoms and empires. Second no one sold their own people, except in the case of the Kongo kingdom, that sold people that committed serious crimes into slavery. Lastly he didn't even excuse African traders for their part of the trade. He simply said buying people is horrible. Some of the slaves that those African traders sold were bought. He is shaming the Africans that bought slaves just as much as he is shaming the Europeans that bought slaves. Are you actually this much of a brainlet? Or are you just pretending?

[@404Dannyboy]

@@beninwarrior4579 Just want to point out that most slaves sold in the trans Atlantic trade weren't criminals. They were usually ordinary people from a tribe who bad lost a battle or the victim of a raid. The African kingdoms who sold slaves depended on the trade for business and so were constantly raiding and battling nearby lands to take captives.

[@beninwarrior4579]

@@404Dannyboy Why are you telling me this? I was simply disputing the "they sold their own people myth." They didn't sell their own people. They sold foreigners captured in battle or in raids, and In some cases criminals. I never said the majority of people sold were criminals. What I said was that when it came to selling their own people the Kongo kingdom was an exception, since it sold it's serious criminals into slavery.

[@bidenator9760]

@@aboriginalalex Hmm, maybe both are bad. Doesn't take a PhD to come to that realization.

[@Simon-1965]

He supposedly believes that God saved him! He acted against Jesus Christ in his business and thinks God saved him! I hope that he prayed for forgiveness otherwise he's in hell right now.

[@waliddrissi8370]

Why do they call them moors ? Aren't moors north africans ?

[@waliddrissi8370]

@Joe yeah Othello came to my mind while watching this But why the word moors started being used on black people For my knowledge moors were Berbers and they weren't black

[@waliddrissi8370]

@Joe maybe darker because of the sun and the climate but I'm sure we're not black I'm from Morocco and i have blonde hair and a light skin We look like your average Spaniard or Italian

[@cv4809]

@@waliddrissi8370 in the case of the balkans, local people would till recently refer to black afrians as arabs. That's because before balkan people had any knowledge on who black africans were, arabs were the darkest skinned people they were aware of. So when they would come across a black african, they would simply call him an arab. Same thing with "moor" in western europe

[@IngenieroBasado]

I think its because there were many islamic african kingdoms like the berber or andalusian, probably they thought that everyone in africa were the same

[@lif3andthings763]

@@waliddrissi8370 There were black soldiers, slaves, and traders in North West Africa and Andalusia. Im pretty sure blonde hair wasn’t always common among the amazigh people and still isn’t. Maybe you got it from a European ancestor.

[@tyronedoutherd6444]

I will never look at the holocaust the same.I have no sympathy for they have no sympathy.

[@hanslund308]

that music does not fit

[@burnsbooks69]

Was he Jewish?

[@engloulevent]

No

[@josephang9927]

Most Slave trading ships were from Jewish traders. Very interesting.

[@us7wqtrnek7uu]

You right kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5Wzd2WImLire5o

[@xxora6568]

1. Not sure if this even true 2. A lot of Jews were merchants in medieval Europe so makes sense 3. The leaders in Europe who authorised slavery we’re certainly not jewish

[@engloulevent]

They were overepresented compared to their population but still a small minority of it

[@cshaffer1847]

Christianity was the only thing that gave people pause in having slaves. Before Christianity slavery was very common in Europe. In the end Christian pastors and activist ended slavery in every country, and were fundamental in the abolition movement in the USA, and convinced Lincoln that slavery was wrong and should be made illegal. Very interesting to see the inner struggle from a first hand account

[@drakejoy2902]

Well all humans are created equal after all.

[@maxpulido4268]

It was used to establish and perpetuate slavery in the Americas though

[@cshaffer1847]

@@maxpulido4268 The natives were already enslaving each other here without Christianity for thousands of years and continued to do so until the end of the civil war.

[@maxpulido4268]

@@cshaffer1847 Invalid argument. Also, "Natives" was never a monolithic group on any continent except maybe Australia. The fact of the matter is that without Christianity, slavery would have been harder to enforce in all places. The church never turned against slavery until it became unprofitable and stood in the way of industrialization and globalization.

[@anthonylynch303]

@@maxpulido4268 People forget slavery was also sanctioned by the Catholic church. All the traders had bibles on their person even on the boats. The church also altered the bible in various verse to make it seem like so called black people were ordained to be slaves. The bible was often used to justify slavery. They added in the bible that black skin was a curse and also making refrences to Deuteronomy 28 about so called black people will be slaves and taken by ships to a new land. Christianity was the tool used to conquer the world. Religion was and still is the royal arm of the millitary, plus they both ask us to have blind faith. Military ask to just follow orders no question asked and the church just want you to beleive and never doubt.

[@oscarromarioflorezcamargo6342]

Of course Portuguese man enjoyed those Moorish woman more than their own, have you ever seen them?

[@purdy9170]

The black women were different ..that is always attractive .and they could be used as much as the men liked . They couldn't do that with women at home .

[@blitzkrieg2928]

Whited

[@miguelpadeiro762]

Waltur Whited

[@kerelasfinest4496]

Can you still buy slaves?

[@MAX-tw3qz]

Try Libya or deep Nigeria.

[@kerelasfinest4496]

@@MAX-tw3qz that’s so sad 😔

[@lif3andthings763]

@@kerelasfinest4496 you can buy one in any country on earth. Many mail order brides are slaves and you have the dark web.

[@0mg1tsbatman87]

Sure if you own a private prison in the US.

[@BernasLL]

This is a pretty interesting account! Very earnest. Probably "spaniards" and "spanish nation" are mistranslations. Iberians and iberian nations would be the proper modern equivalents. Let's keep in mind that the whole Philippine claim to the throne was that they were portuguese as well as spanish (collapsing when they stopped acting like it), and the distinction was mostly observed in the period within the two iberian nations.

[@GarfieldRex]

Now about Muslim and Ottoman slave trade 🤔 were all they castrated ?

[@karabudun-tarihvesiyaset8037]

All religions, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam allow slavery. The Byzantine Empire had slaves, the Jewish empires in the Middle East, the Persians, the Ottomans and so on. There was no "Muslim" slavery, but Arabic, Ottoman, Moroccan slavery. In some cases, even Muslims were enslaved by other hostile Muslim empires, which shows that slavery was a common treatment to show superiority and to humiliate an enemy, rather than a religious practice.

[@lif3andthings763]

No they weren’t all castrated. Most male slaves were to be soldiers or servants. Eunuchs were needed for the nobility and religions institutions.

[@modenasolone]

Tell us why, David. Make a video.

[@GarfieldRex]

@@modenasolone nope, I'm just asking, that's why I'm glad with the people that have given complete answers.

[@baneofbanes]

The Janissaries weren’t castrated.

[@Jojolexplosif]

Interesting video. But I don’t know why anybody would want to present a Slave Trader as rational and benevolent.

[@Jojolexplosif]

....and sympathetic to a horrific act they went through a lot of trouble profiting.

[@miguelpadeiro762]

Its not "anybody" presenting him as rational and benevolent, its himself presenting his own accounts, which although sound benevolent and rational, they are also hypocritical for the fact that he nonetheless ends participating in the slave trade

[@user-ik2yi4fm1u]

He is presenting himself because theyre reading his own "diary", some mental gymnastics must clearly go on in his mind to justify slavery. At first it was "buisness" then became racism.

[@donq2957]

Too bad thee Ottomans didn't get to Portugal.

[@baneofbanes]

Why? The Ottomans traded in slaves too.

[@maxpulido4268]

Death to the ottomans! Stinky turkey burgers